Crosshair

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Reticle.

    "I'm just a crosshair / I'm just a shot away from you"

Verb
  1. 1
    To focus on within a reticle.

    "Watching hopefully for a buck to come along behind the does, I eyed them through the scope of the borrowed .243. From time to time, I crosshaired the vital areas ."

  2. 2
    To target. broadly

    "She fired a smile at him, the likes of which he hadn't seen in years—since Meg, in fact, had crosshaired him at the junior prom with one of those flirtations that he never would've believed the president of the Methodist Girls' Youth Group was capable of."

Synonyms

All synonyms
reticle

Example

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"I'm just a crosshair / I'm just a shot away from you"

Etymology

From cross + hair.

Related phrases

in the crosshairs

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